Brant (goose), the Glossary
The brant or brent goose (Branta bernicla) is a small goose of the genus Branta.[1]
Table of Contents
58 relations: Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, Alaska, American Ornithological Society, Atlantic Ocean, Barnacle, Barnacle goose, Barnacle goose myth, Binomial nomenclature, Birding World, Branta, Brent oilfield, British Birds Rarities Committee, California, Carl Linnaeus, Carrying capacity, Castlemaine Harbour, Cereal, County Kerry, Dutch Birding, Estuary, Franz Josef Land, Genus, George Newbold Lawrence, George Sangster, Georgia (U.S. state), Gerald of Wales, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Goose, Greenland, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Jersey, John Gerard, Lough Foyle, Maine, Manche, Medieval Latin, Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), Old Norse, Ornithology (journal), Otto Friedrich Müller, Poaceae, Puget Sound, Richard Millington, Sea lettuce, Seaweed, Siberia, Species description, Strangford Lough, Subspecies, Svalbard, ... Expand index (8 more) »
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Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds
The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, or African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) is an independent international treaty developed under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme's Convention on Migratory Species.
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Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
American Ornithological Society
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Barnacle
Barnacles are arthropods of the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea.
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Barnacle goose
The barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) is a species of goose that belongs to the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species. Brant (goose) and barnacle goose are birds of the Arctic, branta and geese.
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Barnacle goose myth
The barnacle goose myth is a widely-reported historical misconception about the breeding habits of the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) and brant goose (Branta bernicla). Brant (goose) and barnacle goose myth are geese.
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Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Birding World
Birding World was a monthly birding magazine published in the United Kingdom.
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Branta
The black geese of the genus Branta are waterfowl belonging to the true geese and swans subfamily Anserinae. Brant (goose) and Branta are geese.
Brent oilfield
The Brent field was an oil and gas field located in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, north-east of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, at a water depth of.
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British Birds Rarities Committee
The British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC), established in 1959, is the national bird rarities committee for Britain.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Carrying capacity
The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available.
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Castlemaine Harbour
Castlemaine Harbour is a Ramsar site, Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area and national nature reserve of approximately located in County Kerry, Ireland.
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Cereal
A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.
County Kerry
County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county on the southwest coast of Ireland, within the province of Munster and the Southern Region.
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Dutch Birding
Dutch Birding, originally subtitled Journal of the Dutch Birding Association,.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land (Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
George Newbold Lawrence
George Newbold Lawrence (October 20, 1806 – January 17, 1895) was an American businessman and amateur ornithologist.
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George Sangster
George Sangster is a Dutch ornithologist.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis; Gerallt Cymro; Gerald de Barri) was a Cambro-Norman priest and historian.
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and naturalist.
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Goose
A goose (geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. Brant (goose) and goose are geese.
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Jersey
Jersey (label), officially known as the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France.
John Gerard
John Gerard (also John Gerarde, 1545–1612) was an English herbalist with a large garden in Holborn, now part of London.
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Lough Foyle
Lough Foyle, sometimes Loch Foyle (or "loch of the lip"), is the estuary of the River Foyle, on the north coast of Ireland.
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Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.
Manche
Manche (Norman: Maunche) is a coastal French ''département'' in Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as La Manche, literally "the sleeve", in French.
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
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Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)
Melville IslandCoordinates are located on the NWT side.
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Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
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Ornithology (journal)
Ornithology, formerly The Auk and The Auk: Ornithological Advances, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS).
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Otto Friedrich Müller
Otto Friedrich Müller, also known as Otto Friedrich Mueller (2 November 1730 – 26 December 1784) was a Danish naturalist and scientific illustrator.
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Poaceae
Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.
Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington.
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Richard Millington
Richard Millington is a British birder and bird artist.
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Sea lettuce
The sea lettuces comprise the genus Ulva, a group of edible green algae that is widely distributed along the coasts of the world's oceans.
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Seaweed
Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Species description
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.
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Strangford Lough
Strangford Lough is a large sea lough or inlet in County Down, in the east of Northern Ireland.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
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Svalbard
Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
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Tralee Bay
Tralee Bay (Loch Foirdhreamhain / Cuan Thrá Lí) is located in on the west coast of County Kerry, Ireland.
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Tundra
In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.
Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.
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William Turner (naturalist)
William Turner (1509/10 – 13 July 1568) was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian.
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Zostera
Zostera is a small genus of widely distributed seagrasses, commonly called marine eelgrass, or simply seagrass or eelgrass, and also known as seaweed by some fishermen and recreational boaters including yachtsmen.
Zostera marina
Zostera marina is a flowering vascular plant species as one of many kinds of seagrass, with this species known primarily by the English name of eelgrass with seawrack much less used, and refers to the plant after breaking loose from the submerged wetland soil, and drifting free with ocean current and waves to a coast seashore.
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10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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See also
Branta
- Aleutian cackling goose
- Atlantic Canada goose
- Barnacle goose
- Brant (goose)
- Branta
- Branta rhuax
- Branta thessaliensis
- Cackling goose
- Canada goose
- Canada goose in New Zealand
- Dusky Canada goose
- Giant Canada goose
- Moffitt's Canada goose
- Nene (bird)
- Nēnē-nui
- Red-breasted goose
- Small cackling goose
- Vancouver Canada goose
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brant_(goose)
Also known as Atlantic brant, Black Brant, Black Brent Goose, Brant Goose, Branta bernicla, Branta bernicla bernicla, Branta bernicla hrota, Branta bernicla nigricans, Branta hrota, Branta nigricans, Brent Goose, Brent geese, Dark-bellied Brent Goose, Dark-bellied brant goose, Light-bellied brent goose, Pacific brant, Pacific brent goose, Pale-bellied Brent Goose, Pale-bellied brant goose.
, Systema Naturae, Tralee Bay, Tundra, Type (biology), William Turner (naturalist), Zostera, Zostera marina, 10th edition of Systema Naturae.